Question

The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. Choose the word or phrase that must be changed for the sentence to be correct.

Hard work and self-discipline often result in a rise not only in one's salary but also in your self-esteem.

• A. often result
• B. a rise
• C. one's
• D. self-esteem

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

one's

Let’s examine the sentence: “Hard work and self-discipline often result in a rise not only in one's salary but also in your self-esteem.” The sentence uses correlative conjunction, ‘not only…but also.’ When using not only . . . but also in a sentence, parallelism should be the goal. It means that the words following both parts of this correlative conjunction (i.e., not only and but also) should belong to the same parts of speech and use same expressions while referring to one subject or object. However, this parallelism gets broken in the sentence when it use ‘one’s’ and ‘your’ to refer to the same person. To keep this parallelism intact, the sentence should use ‘your’ in place of ‘one’s.’ Hence, the word or phrase that must be changed for the sentence to be correct is indicated by Option C. Option C is the correct answer.